While the president has reached out to the faithful, he has yet to realize that he is dealing with a countercultural movement that at its foundation is obsessed with the apocalypse. But he will know it soon enough as evangelical interpretations of the Bible point to Barack Obama as the Antichrist.
Matthew Avery Sutton
Matthew Avery Sutton is the author of Aimee Semple McPherson and the Resurrection of Christian America (Harvard, 2007) and is associate professor of history at Washington State University.
